CP 23 Rebooting Feminism
Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New
Media and Feminism June 18-20, 2015
Dublin, Ireland
Session A
Thursday June 18, 9:00-10:45am
A1. Irish and UK Television
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Roddy Flynn, Dublin City University
• Deirdre Quinn, Maynooth University, “Stuck in a Moment: Gender Violence,
Genre and Post-Celtic Tiger Television Drama”
• Anne O’Brien, Maynooth University, “Invisible Inequality: Women in Irish
Television Production”
• Frances Bonner, University of Queensland, “The Inescapable Good Life: The
Long Career of Felicity Kendal”
• Beth Johnson, Keele University, “Lesley Sharp and the Alternative
Geographies of Performance”
A2. The Social Architecture of New Media
Room: Shannon
Chair: Suzanne Scott, University of Texas at Austin
• Alison Winch, Middlesex University, “Intergenerational Feminism, Blogging
and Branded Cultures”
• Mary Jo Klinker, Winona State University, “Feminist Hashtags: A Bridge to
Feminist ‘Pasts’”
• Sigal Barak-Brandes, Tel Aviv University, and David Levin, The College of
Management Academic Studies, “’I’ve Changed My Profile Photo, Pay
Attention!:’ Israeli Teenage Girls, Agency and Facebook”
• Avi Santo, Old Dominion University, “What a Doll: Stardom and the Tween
Girl Entrepreneur”
A3. Make Room for Women: Four Case Studies
Room: Marker 1
Chair: Gerardine Meaney, University College Dublin
• Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College, “Whether A Woman Could Do It:’
Madelyn Pugh Davis and Laughing with Lucy”
• Joanne Morreale, Northeastern University, “The Dick Van Dyke Show and
the Progressive Politics of Carl Reiner”
• Caryn Murphy, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, “‘One Black. One White.
One Blonde.’ Countercultural Politics at Play in The Mod Squad.”
• Mary Beth Haralovich, University of Arizona, “Women’s Agency Within
Embedded Military Realism: Army Wives”
A4. Digitized Authenticity: Gender, Race and the Practice of “Realness” in the
Digital Sphere
Room: Marker 2
Chair: Alexandra Sastre, University of Pennsylvania
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Alexandra Sastre, University of Pennsylvania, “Exceptional Bodies:
Photoshopping Feminism”
Dara Persis Murray, Rutgers University, “Enacting Digital Authenticity
Through Celebrity ‘No-Makeup Selfies’”
Jessalyn Keller, Middlesex University, “‘Feminism Is a Buzzword:’
Exploring Feminist Identities In Digital Media Culture”
A5. Technology, Play and Precarity
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Aphra Kerr, Maynooth University
• Eric Freedman, Queens University of Charlotte, “Engine: (En)gendering the
Mechanics of Play”
• Aphra Kerr, Maynooth University, “Emotional Work in the Global Games
Industry”
• Sarah Christina Ganzon, Concordia University, “Boob Cams and Girl
Gamers with Evil Boyfriends: Gender Performance in Let’s Play Videos By
Women”
10:45-11:15
Tea & Coffee Break
Session B
Thursday June 18, 11:15am-1:00pm
B1. Trigger Warnings and Moral Panics
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Paula Gilligan, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology
• Mafalda Stasi, Coventry University, “Trigger Happy: Abjecting Through
Caring”
• Katariina Kyrola, University of Turku, “Trigger Warnings, The Politics of
Vulnerability and Feminist Affect”
• Tanya Serisier, Queen’s University Belfast, “Speaking Out in an Age of
Social Media and Celebrity: Dylan Farrow and the Blogosphere”
B2. Popular Culture in Transnational Spaces
Room: Shannon
Chair: Jeneen Naji, Maynooth University
• Anthea Taylor, University of Sydney and Margaret Henderson, University
of Queensland “The Australian Postfeminist Imaginary”
• Kristin Peterson, University of Colorado, Boulder, “The Affective Labor and
Aesthetic Style of Islamic Fashion Videos on YouTube”
• Ishani Mukherjee, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Re-Blogging
Feminism(s): Intersecting Gender, Violence and Immigration in Ethno-Racial
Digital Spaces”
• Khadija El Alaoui, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University, “How Must We
Believe? Arab Women, Social Media, and the Visions of Tahreer”
B3. Broken Bodies/Inquiring Minds: Women’s Stories in the Contemporary
Transnational Thriller
Room: Marker 1
Co-Chairs: Barbara Klinger, Indiana University and Kathleen McHugh, UCLA
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Kathleen McHugh, UCLA, “Transnational Diagnostics in the Bron/Broen
Cluster”
Barbara Klinger, Indiana University, “The Body Farm: Seriality and Gothic
Formula in Transnational Procedurals Today”
Lisa Coulthard, University of British Columbia, “Emotional Landscapes:
Gender, Affect and Place in Contemporary TV Crime Drama”
Tanya Horeck, Anglia Ruskin University, “’How Could You Not Know?:’
Gender, Affect and the Grieving Mother in Transnational TV Crime Drama”
B4. Selfies, Sexual Identity and Seduction: Cultures of Self-Representation and
Picture Exchange on Social Networking Services and Hook-Up Apps
Room: Marker 2
Chair: Hannah Hamad, Kings College London
• Kath Albury, University of New South Wales, “‘You Think There’s Some
Kind of False Security, Because It’s Your Phone’: Same Sex-Attracted Young
People’s Negotiations of Intimacy and Risk in Mobile Hook-Up Apps”
• Fatima Aziz, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, “Heterosexual
Erotic Exchange/Display on Facebook”
• Amparo Lasen, Complutense University of Madrid, “The Pleasures and
Disquiets of Self-Pornification in Digital Self-Portrait Practices”
• Nancy Thumim, Leeds University, “Asking Women About Their SelfRepresentation Practices”
B5. Workshop: Rebooting Feminist Pedagogies Through Participatory Media
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Ron Krabill, University of Washington Bothell
• Lauren Berliner, University of Washington Bothell
• Ron Krabill, University of Washington Bothell
1:00pm-2:00pm
Session C
Lunch (light lunch provided)
Thursday, June 18 2:00-3:45pm
C1. Girlfriendship
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Melanie Kennedy, University of Leeds
• Morgan Blue, Independent Scholar, “Girlfriends Go Green: Disney Channel,
Corporate Responsibility and Girls’ Citizenship”
• Akane Kanai, Monash University, “Best Friends, Boyfriends, Hot Guys and
Other Girls: Spectatorial Girlfriendship and Postfeminism on Tumblr”
• Kelly Kessler, DePaul University, “Best Friends Forever, Playing House and
America’s Continued Cultural Anxiety Over Televising Female Friends”
• Sam McBean, Queen Mary, University of London, “‘We Fuck and Friends
Don’t Fuck’: BFF Narratives and Lesbian Desire”
C2. Technology, Gender and Patriarchal Authority
Room: Shannon
Chair: Maria Parsons, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology
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Patrick Sutton, Old Dominion University, “The Wii Remote and Patriarchal
Authority”
Mari Pajala, University of Turku, “Valuable Moments?: Animated gifs,
Capitalism and Popular Feminism on Tumblr”
Rachel Axdahl, Old Dominion University, “Oculus Rift: The Digital Eye
Phallus of the Future”
Amy Lawrence, Dartmouth College, “My Favorite Medium: Gender and
Technology in Paranormal Television”
C3. The Aesthetics and Affects of Cuteness
Room: Marker 1
Chair: Joyce Goggin, Universiteit van Amsterdam
• Julia Leyda, Freie Universität Berlin, “Abjection, Animality, and Cuteness in
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo”
• Anthony McIntyre, University College Dublin, “Ted, Wilfred, and the Guys:
Cuteness, Raunch Culture, and Animal-Human Hybridization"
• Joyce Goggin, Universiteit van Amsterdam, “Affective Marketing and The
Kuteness of Kiddles”
• Kelly Wolf, University of South Carolina, “The Performance of Cybercute
Captioning: Gender, Cross-Species Ventriloquism, and Strategic Affect”
C4. Workshop: Fandom, Digital Publics and Feminist Pedagogy
Room: Marker 2
Co-Chairs: Allison McCracken, DePaul University and Louisa Stein, Middlebury
College
• Erin Horáková, Queen Mary, University of London, “Our Foe: Positioning
Fandom and Negotiating Ideas of the Avant-Garde in Literature Studies
Pedagogy”
• Jen Kelly, DePaul University, “‘The Intersection of Tumblr Fan Pedagogies
and Queer Identity”
• Allison McCracken, DePaul University, “‘Girl’ (Feminine-Gendered) Fan
Conventions as Sites of Feminist Pedagogies”
• Katherine Morrissey, Rochester Institute of Technology, “From Derivative
to Transformative: Making Remix and Vidding Practices Matter In Our
Classrooms”
• Louisa Stein, Middlebury College, “Transform: Teaching Media Literacy
Through Multimedia Publishing and Fan Video Annotation”
C5. Memory, Feeling, Media
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Catherine Driscoll, University of Sydney
• Meaghan Morris, University of Sydney, “Becoming an Expatriate, or
Nostalgia for MSN: Memory and New Media in Hong Kong”
• Jane Glaubman, Cornell University, “On the Slab Runes Were Deeply
Graven: Camera Lucida and #LotR Fandom on Tumblr”
• Catherine Driscoll, University of Sydney, “‘an escape, a focus, and a façade:’
Memories of Becoming a Girl Gamer”
3:45-4:15
Tea & Coffee Break
Session D
Thursday, June 18 4:15-6:00pm
D1. Sexuality, Pornification, Pornography
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Debbie Ging, Dublin City University
• Tupur Chatterjee, University of Texas at Austin, “‘I Am a Porn Star!’
Gender, Bodies and Spectacle in India: What Do We Do With Sunny Leone?”
• Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku, “Monster Toons, or, The Limits of
Identification as an Analytical Concept in Feminist Studies of Pornography”
• Gina Marchetti, University of Hong Kong, “Feminist Frames/Small
Screens/Burning Desires: Hong Kong Women’s Perspectives on Sex in the
HKSAR”
• Laura O’Connor, University of Ulster, “Subverting the Screen: Methods of
Subverting the Online Pornified Body in Feminist Art Practice”
D2. Celebrity Lives/Celebrity Production
Room: Shannon
Chair: Ruth Barton, Trinity College
• Donald Crafton, University of Notre Dame, “Out of Obscurity: Edna
Williams, International Film Distributor”
• Karen Boyle, University of Stirling, “Rebooting Agnes Varda: The Feminist
Possibilities of DVD Authorship”
• Steven Cohan, Syracuse University, “‘This Industry Lives on Gossip and
Scandal:’ Female Star Narratives on Television”
• Susan Ohmer, University of Notre Dame, “Art and Mass Production: Disney,
Courvoisier and Edith Wakeman Hughes”
D3. Workshop: Moving On Up While Keeping It Together: Mentoring
Workshop for Tenure and Promotion
Room: Marker 1
Chair: Mary Celeste Kearney, University of Notre Dame
• Brenda Weber, Indiana University, “Compiling the Dossier from the Moment
You Sign the Contract: The Long and Winding Road to Promotion and Tenure
that Goes by Far Too Quickly”
• Kelly Kessler, DePaul University, “No Really, Gender and Media Studies is a
Real Thing: Positioning Your Work for Tenure Committees outside of the
Discipline”
• Norma Coates, University of Western Ontario, “Canada is not the 51st
American State: Negotiating a Cross-Appointment in a Different Academic
and Cultural Context”
• Vicki Mayer, Tulane University, “Between Mentor and Manager: The Roles
of Chairs in the US Tenure Timeline”
• Mary Celeste Kearney, University of Notre Dame, “The More Eyeballs the
Better (?): Reviewing the Tenure and Promotion Dossier”
• Diane Negra, University College Dublin, “Career Progression in Irish and UK
Third Level Education”
D4. Pinning Down Feminisms: A Platform Analysis of Pinterest
Room: Marker 2
Chair: Taylor Nygaard, University of Denver
• Elizabeth Affuso, Pitzer College, “Imaginary Motherhood: Hipster Toddlers,
Parody, and Performance on Pinterest”
• Taylor Nygaard, University of Denver, “Conspicuous Non-Consumption:
Pinterest’s Gendered DIY Culture in the Post-Recession Era”
• Suzanne Scott, University of Texas at Austin, “From Poaching to Pinning:
Geek Girl(y) Culture on Pinterest”
D5. Queens, Freaks and Virgins: Branding Sexual Identity on Contemporary
Reality TV
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Amanda Ann Klein, East Carolina University
• Alfred Martin, University of Texas at Austin, “Unruly Queens: Reclaiming
the Black Fag on Fashion Queens”
• John Trenz, University of Pittsburgh, “In the Valley of the VanderDolls:
Branding Queer Reception and Bravo Network’s Vanderpump Rules”
• Alice Leppert, Ursinus College, ““Domesticating the Harem, Marginalizing
the Freakshow: TLC’s Hypernatalist Heteronormativity”
• Amanda Ann Klein, East Carolina University, “Losing it: MTV’s Virgin
Territory and the Parameters of the Virgin Identity”
6:00-7:30pm
Plenary Session: Performing Dissent: Feminism and
Activism in Ireland
Room: Marker 1&2
Chair: Sinéad Kennedy, Maynooth University
• Jesse Jones & Sarah Browne, Visual Artists
• Karla Healion, Dublin Feminist Film Festival
• Stephanie Lord, FeministIre
• Elizabeth Madden, Cork Feminista
7:30-8:30pm
Opening Reception
Friday, June 19
Session E
Friday, June 19 9:00-10:45am
E1. Alternative Virtual Worlds
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Jeneen Naji, Maynooth University
• Sarah Zaidan, Emerson College, “The Adventures of Ms. Meta: An
Interactive Intervention”
• A.C. Deger, Stony Brook University, “Homestuck is SO GAY!:’ Queer
Gaming, Queer Fandom and Play”
• Negin Dahya, University of Washington and Jennifer Jenson, York
University, “(En)gendering Videogame Design: A Feminist Intervention in
Pedagogy and Practice”
• Jeneen Naji, Maynooth University, “Multicultural Translations in the Digital
Space”
E2. Female Centrality in Television
Room: Shannon
Chair: Madeline Lyes, University College Dublin
• Laura Canning, Falmouth University and Sheamus Sweeney, Boston
University in Dublin, “Not Your Feminist Daddy: The Tyranny of the MonoFaceted ‘Strong’ Female Character in the Work of Joss Whedon”
• Bettina Soller, Freie Universität Berlin, and Maria Sulimma, Freie
Universität Berlin, “‘You Know, Government Isn’t Just a Boys’ Club
Anymore:’ Female Protagonists in Contemporary US-American Political
Drama and Comedy Series”
• Sarah Hagelin, University of Colorado, Denver, “‘It’s Already in the Glass:’
Female Antiheroes in 21st Century Television”
• Michele Leigh, Southern Illinois University, “Welcome to the Clone Club:
Orphan Black and 21st Century Feminisms”
E3. Networked Subjectivities: Rebooting Feminism in Digital Culture
Room: Marker 1
Chair: Aubrey Anable, University of Toronto
• Julie Wilson, Allegheny College and Emily Yochim, Allegheny College,
“Re-Centering Everyday Life: Digital Networks and Gender Subjectivities”
• Aubrey Anable, University of Toronto, “Feminism and Affect in Game
Studies”
• Sujata Moorti, Middlebury College, “YouTube Feminism: Mapping the
Grammar of Millennial Activism”
• Nicholas Sammond, University of Toronto, “(En)Gendering Anonymous:
Online Chivalry and Intermediated Gender”
E4. Gender, Feminism and Crime Television
Room: Marker 2
Chair: Yvonne Tasker, University of East Anglia
• Lindsay Steenberg, Oxford Brookes University, “Castle as ‘Invisible
Television’: Crime TV, Romance and the Middlebrow”
• Yvonne Tasker, University of East Anglia, “Paternalism and Policing:
Feminism, Female Investigators and The Good/Bad Fathers Of Crime
Television”
• Sofia Bull, University of Warwick, “An Ordinary Female Expert? Gender,
Genre and Audience Address in Sherlock’s Portrayal of Molly Hooper”
E5. Bravo and Other Brands of Feminism
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Julia Himberg, Arizona State University
• Julia Himberg, Arizona State University, “Branding Post-Network Identity:
Bravo, Lesbian Televisibility, and the Changing Landscape of Basic Cable”
• Darcey Morris, Towson University, “Bravo’s Quality Brand and the
Ideological Construction of LGBT Consumer Identity in the Post-Network
Era”
• Jorie Lagerwey, University College Dublin, “Bravo’s Brand and Feminism in
Unlikely Places”
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Tisha Dejmanee, University of Southern California, “Consuming Intimacies:
Postfeminist Labour on Food Blogs”
10:45-11:15am
Session F
Tea & Coffee Break
Friday, June 19 11:15am-1:00pm
F1. Reception, Fandom and Resistance
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Emma Radley, University College Dublin
• Eylem Atakav, University of East Anglia, “Riding High: The Critical
Reception of Wadjda”
• Ken Feil, Emerson College, “Biography, Fan-time and Activism: The Queer
Lives of Jacqueline Susann”
• Ysabel Gerrard, University of Leeds, “‘Fangirl? I Hate That Word:’ Online
Fandom, Postfeminism and the New Guilty Pleasures”
• Hannah Mueller, Cornell University, “We Are the Districts: Fannish
Resistance to The Hunger Games Marketing Campaigns”
F2. “Re-Booting” Feminism
Room: Shannon
Chair: Sue Thornham, Sussex University
• Sue Thornham, Sussex University and Helen Thornham Leeds University,
“Re-Booting Feminism: On Going Backwards and Forwards”
• Sinéad Kennedy, Maynooth University, “Freedom and Choice or Regulation
and Discipline?: Feminism in an Age of Neoliberalism”
• Caroline Bainbridge, University of Roehampton, “Re-Programming
Feminism: Psycho-Cultural Perspectives on Television Drama as Gender
Political Catalyst”
• Cara Dickason, Georgetown University, “Streaming the Oppositional Gaze:’
Digital Delivery and Feminist Resistance in Scandal and Orange is the New
Black”
F3. The One About the Famous Sitcom: Gender, Race and Class in Friends
Room: Marker 1
Chair: Alice Leppert, Ursinus College
• Hannah Hamad, King’s College London, “The One With the Feminist
Critique: Revisiting Millennial Postfeminism with Friends”
• Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton, “The One with the Ethnic
Minority Girlfriend: The Postfeminist Respectability Politics of Race in
Friends”
• Neil Ewen, University of Winchester, “‘If I Don’t Input Those Numbers…It
Doesn’t Make Much of a Difference’: Insulated Precarity and Gendered
Labour in Friends”
F4. Making the New Materialisms Matter for Feminist Media Studies
Room: Marker 2
Chair: Tara McPherson, University of Southern California
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Kara Keeling, University of Southern California, “‘One. Of A Kind.:’
Orphan Black, Transduction, and ‘the I of the Other’”
Tara McPherson, University of Southern California, “Designing for
Difference”
Alexandra Juhasz, Pitzer College, “Ev-ent-anglement 3: Dublin”
F5. The Banality of Online Misogyny: Masculinity in Crisis (Again)?
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Debbie Ging, Dublin City University
• Debbie Ging, Dublin City University, “#Gamergate, The Fine Young
Capitalists Controversy and the Ideological Elasticity of Online Misogyny”
• Angela Nagle, Dublin City University, “‘Forever Alone’: Friendzoning,
Revenge and the Case of Elliot Rodger”
• Eugenia Siapera, Dublin City University and Paloma Viejo Otero, Dublin
City University, “#everdaysexism and Online Misogyny: Reconsidering the
Gender Wars”
1:00-2:00pm Lunch (light lunch provided)
Session G
Friday 2:00-3:45pm
G1. Austerity, Class and Media
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Yvonne Tasker, University of East Anglia
• Elspeth Probyn, University of Sydney, “Oceanic Entanglement: Finding
Gender in the More-Than-Human Seascape”
• Vernon Shetley, Wellesley College, “The Women’s Buddy Comedy of
Unemployment”
• Helen Thornham, Leeds University, and Nancy Thumim, Leeds University
“Future Orientated Now Feminism, Or What Happens When You Ask NEET
Teenagers Where They Will be in Ten Years’ Time”
• Amanda Earley, University of Leicester, “’That’s Not What Rape Feels
Like:’ Defining Class as Sexuality in Two Broke Girls”
G2. Feminist Praxis Online: Gaming, Porn, Sex Work and the Archive
Room: Shannon
Chair: Sandra Gabriele, Concordia University
• Sandra Gabriele, Concordia University and Natalie Zina Walschots,
Concordia University, “Designing Games in a Time of Hate”
• Maria Nengeh Mensah, Université du Québec à Montréal, “Testimonials by
Sex Workers About De/Criminalisation: Rebooting Feminism?”
• Bobby Noble, York University, “‘Put a little porn in your feminism; Put a little
feminism in your porn:’ Feminist Porn Cultures and the Porny Technologies of
New Media”
• Lisa Sloniowski, York University, “Penetrating the LOD Cloud: Promiscuous
Data, Feminist Porn, and the Semantic Web”
G3. Workers Needed!: “Postfeminism,” “Post-Racism,” and New Media Labor
Room: Marker 1
Chair: Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths, University of London
• Rosalind Gill, City University London; Ana Sofia Elias, King’s College
London; and Christina Scharff, King’s College London, “Aesthetic
Entrepreneurship: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberal Times”
• Laurie Ouellette, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, “Producing Style:
Labor and Value in the Aesthetic Economy”
• Roopali Mukherjee, City University of New York, Queens College,
“‘Working like a Black’: Police Videos and the Work Ethics of Seeing and
Being Seen”
• Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California, “Whom Are We
Empowering? Popular Feminism and the Work of Empowerment”
G4. Workshop: Feminist Production Studies
Room: Marker 2
Chair: Vicki Mayer, Tulane University
• Vicki Mayer, Tulane University
• Miranda Banks, Emerson College
• Bridget Conor, King’s College London
G5. Motherhood, Childhood and Media Cultures
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Jorie Lagerwey, University College Dublin
• Julie Rodgers, Maynooth University, “‘Do You Wanna Be In My Gang?:’
The Idealization of Motherhood in Kay Mellor’s In The Club”
• Melanie Williams, University of East Anglia, “‘Aren’t We Naughty
Mummies??!!:’ A Study of Mumsnet and Netsmums Responses to CBeebies’
Mr. Bloom’s Nursery”
• Joseleyn Leimbach, Indiana University, “Queering Christina Yang:
Voluntary Childlessness and Grey’s Anatomy’s Challenge to Postfeminism”
• Kirsten Pike, Northwestern University in Qatar, “Lebanon Longs for Hannah
Montana: Gender and National Identity in Arab Children's Television”
G6. Femininity, Embodiment, and Representation
Room: Trinity
Chair: Stephen Boyd, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology
• Stephen Boyd, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, “Surf
Girlz and the Roxy Turn: The Representation of Women in Surfing Media and
Film”
• Eleanor O’Leary, Maynooth University, “Bare Naked Ladies: Nudity and
Female Empowerment in Popular Culture”
• Michael Kackman, University of Notre Dame, “Bodies of Knowledge: 1980s
America, The Americans and the Gendering of Human Intelligence”
3:45-4:15
Tea & Coffee Break
Session H
Friday, June 19, 4:15-6:00
H1. Confronting Masculinities in Digital Games and Game Cultures
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Gerald Voorhees, University of Waterloo
• Kristina Bell, High Point University; Nicholas Taylor, North Carolina State
University; Christopher Kampe, North Carolina State University,
“‘Clementine Will Remember That’: An Exploration of Fatherhood in Telltale
Games’ The Walking Dead”
• Gerald Voorhees, University of Waterloo, “The Melancholic Discourse of
Broken Masculinity in The Last of Us”
• Kelly Bergstrom, York University, “Unexamined Masculinities: Reframing
the Discussion about Gender in the EVE Online Community”
• Christopher A. Paul, University of Seattle, “Masculinity, Performance, and
Free-to-Play: World of Tanks, Clash of Clans, and Kim Kardashian:
Hollywood”
H2. Facebook Groups as Feminist Collaborative Spaces
Room: Shannon
Chair: April Cobos, Old Dominion University
• April Cobos, Old Dominion University, “How Social Media Has Changed the
Policing of Gender Behavior in Military Spouses: Building Community
through Collaborative Rhetoric in Facebook Groups”
• Jamie Henthorn, Northern Virginia Community College, “Mom on the Run:
Managing Societal Expectations for Fitness through Facebook Groups”
• Sarah Spangler, Old Dominion University, “Cyberfeminist Pedagogies and
Facebook Groups: How Gendered Digital Sites Can Facilitate Community and
Collaboration for Distributed Women Graduate Students”
• Sarah McGinley, Wright State University, “Sharing the Squee: Female
Community Building through Homoerotic Image Gift Economies in Open and
Closed Facebook Groups.”
H3. Age, Ageing and the Gendered Temporalities of Fame
Room: Marker 1
Chair and Respondent: Lucy Bolton, Queen Mary, University of London
• Deborah Jermyn, University of Roehampton, “Rewriting the Hollywood
Ending: Meryl Streep at 60+”
• Su Holmes, University of East Anglia, “‘Little Lena’s a Big Girl Now’: Lena
Zavaroni and the Anorexic Star”
• Sean Redmond, Deakin University, “The Time and Timelessness of Stars”
H4. Workshop: Teaching Against the “Posts:” Feminist Media Pedagogy for the
“Postfeminist,” “Post-Racial” Moment
Room: Marker 2
Co-Chairs: Ryan Bowles Eagle, California State University Dominguez Hills and
Meredith Heller, Northern Arizona University
• Patricia Ahn, Occidental College, “Against ‘Civil’ Discourse: Teaching and
Making Agitational Media in the Classroom”
• Ryan Bowles Eagle, California State University Dominguez Hills. “‘I Don't
Even *See* Race’: Colorblindness as Privilege in the College Classroom”
• Meredith Heller, Northern Arizona University. “I Tumbl(r) for You:
Confronting ‘Post’ Entrenchment with Praxis-Based Learning”
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Homay King, Bryn Mawr College, “Trigger Warnings for Content and Their
Discontents”
H5. Femininity, Genre and Performance in Popular Music
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Emma Radley, University College Dublin
• Adriane Brown, Augsburg College, “‘I Knew You Were Trouble When You
Walked In:’ Reproducing White Feminine Propriety Through Taylor Swift
and Miley Cyrus Online Fandoms”
• Norma Coates, University of Western Ontario, “‘Presumed Feminism’ and
the Career Female Popular Musician
• Nathalie Weidhase, University of Roehampton, “Postfeminist Camp in the
Music Videos and Live Performances of Katy Perry”
• Mary Celeste Kearney, University of Notre Dame, “Hi-Fi Girls: Rock ‘n’
Roll, Phonography and the Teen-Girl Market”
H6. Contemplating Bodies: Making Visible Hidden Activations of Digital Media
Room: Trinity
Chair: Mary Elizabeth Luka, Ryerson University,
• Marusya Bociurkiw, Ryerson University, "Molotov Cocktails & Facebook
Pages: Feminist Uses of Embodied & Digital Protest in Eastern Europe”
• Laura Forlano, Illinois Institute of Technology, “Hacking the Feminist Body:
Media, Materiality and Things”
• Mary Elizabeth Luka, Ryerson University, “Regulatory Bodies: Let’s Not
Talk TV Anymore”
• Mél Hogan, Illinois Institute of Technology, “Electromagnetic Soup: EMFs,
Bodies, and Surveillance”
6:00-7:30pm
Plenary Session
Room: Marker 1&2
Chair: Maria Pramaggiore, Maynooth University
Elizabeth Losh, University of California San Diego,
“Many Hands Don’t Make Light Work: Feminist Invention Stories and
Computational Media”
Saturday, June 20
Session I
Saturday, June 20, 9:00-10:45am
I1. Gender Politics in Audiovisual Translation and Content Reformatting
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Chiara Ferrari, California State University Chico
• Chiara Ferrari, California State University Chico, “Family Guy Goes to
Italy: Dubbing, Censorship, and Mediaset's Patriarchal Monopoly”
• Christine Becker, University of Notre Dame, “Getting On Across the Pond”
• Laureana Bernabo, University of Iowa, “Outside the Generic Closet: Gender
and Sexuality in Glee’s Mexican Translation”
I2. Queer Identities and Contemporary Television
Room: Shannon
Chair: Ken Feil, Emerson College
• Dana Heller, Old Dominion University, “Mixed Feelings: Ellen DeGeneres
and the Labors of Celesbianism”
• Páraic Kerrigan, Maynooth University, “‘For Once in my Life I Feel
Accepted:’ How the Performance of Trans Identities on Reality TV Underpins
the Fragility of Identity and Selfhood”
• Benjamin Kruger-Robbins, University of California at Irvine, “Singing in
the Closet: Queer Erasure and Emergence on American Idol”
• Michael DeAngelis, DePaul University, “Gay Love Triangles, General
Hospital and the Contemporary American Daytime Serial”
I3. International Perspectives on Mediated Class Relations: Television Meets
Social Media
Room: Marker 1
Chair and Respondent: Vicki Mayer, Tulane University
• Tania Lewis, RMIT University, “From Here to Modernity? Negotiating
Aspirational Identities on Indian Reality TV”
• Bev Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of London and Helen Wood, University
of Leicester, “The Magalluf Girl: Public Sex, Viral Attitudes and the Class
Relations of Social Contagion"
• Anne Graefer, University of Leicester, “‘Everyone Follows Mama to
Mallorca’: Gender, Class and Nationality in the Reality Television Series
Goodbye Germany”
• Andrea Press, University of Virginia, “The Classed ‘Gaze’ of New Media: A
Comparison of Sexism, Homophobia, and Redemption in Contrasting New
Media Platforms”
I4. Scandalicious: How Shonda Rhimes’s “Bad Feminists” Are Rebooting
Television
Room: Marker 2
Chair: Anna Everett, University California Santa Barbara
• Anna Everett, University of California Santa Barbara, "Scandalicious:
Shonda Rhimes’s WTF Transdiscursive Narratives and Shondaland’s LiveTweeting Fandom Phenomenon"
• Mia Mask, Vassar College, “Where has the scandal Gone?”: The Race for
Ratings”
• Jade Petermon, University of California Santa Barbara, “Whose Politics are
These Anyway?: On Scandal and Resistance in the Neoliberal Era”
I5. Workshop: Rebooting Feminist Narrative: Issues in Scholarship and
Publication
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Virginia Kuhn, University of Southern California
• Virginia Kuhn, University of Southern California, “Solving for X: Race,
Class or Gender?”
• Shelleen Green, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “The ‘Then and Now’
of Afrofuturist Performance in Popular Culture”
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Nina Cartier, Northwestern University, “Rebooting Black Feminism with
Future Music Texts”
Anna Froula, East Carolina University, “Veteran Stories and Feminist
Narrative”
Vicki Callahan, University of Southern California, "Anthologizing Feminism
and the Politics of ‘Coherence’”
10:45-11:15am
Session J
Tea & Coffee Break
Saturday, June 20, 11:15am-1:00pm
J1. Gender, Quality and Television Drama
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Ann Gray, University of Lincoln
• Julia Havas, University of East Anglia, “Orange Is the New Black, Quality
TV and Feminist Politics”
• Michael Rennett, University of Texas at Austin, “Top Gear and the
Gendering of ‘Quality’ in Reality Television”
• Katie Moylan, University of Leicester, “Uncanny TV: Estranging Moments
and Abjection in Recent Television Drama”
• Christina Kappel, George Mason University, “‘For Us, Everything is Grey’:
Transnational Postfeminism on The Americans”
J2. The Futurity of Queer Media Studies
Room: Shannon
Chair: Ben Aslinger, Bentley University
• Hollis Griffin, Denison University, “Queer Value & TV Scholarship”
• Katrin Horn, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, “Longing for a Future Past?
Nostalgia and Queer Women in Media”
• Ben Aslinger, Bentley University, “Imagining Reciprocity”
• Maria San Filippo, University of the Arts, “‘Just because I’m a Lesbian
Doesn’t Mean I’m Evolved’: ‘Post-Queer’ Politics of Representation in
HBO’s Looking and Web Series The Slope and F to 7th”
J3. “Can We Talk?”: Funny Feminists of a Certain Age
Room: Marker 1
Chair: Anthony McIntyre, University College Dublin
• Roberta Mock, Plymouth University, “Joan Rivers’s Body of Performance”
• Linda Mizejewski, Ohio State University, “Carol Burnett as Unruly
Daughter: Feminism and the Devastating Family”
• Rosie White, Northumbria University, “Roseanne Barr: Remembering
Roseanne”
J4. Unruly is the New Normal
Room: Marker 2
Chair: Mimi White, Northwestern University
Respondent: Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, University of Oregon
• Mimi White, Northwestern University, “The Rules of Unruly Women
Sitcoms”
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Misha Kavka, University of Auckland, “Over-the-Top Models: Affective
Visibility and Postfeminist Reality TV”
Aymar Jean Christian, Northwestern University, “Breaking the Rules: The
Broads of Indie TV”
J5. A Return to Melodrama (Northern Television Research Group)
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Faye Woods, University of Reading
• Hannah Andrews, University of York, “‘Women We Loved’: The
Melodramatic Mode in Female Television Biopics"
• Alison Peirse, University of Northumbria, “‘Mellor-Drama’: Scriptwriting,
British Television and In the Club"
• Faye Woods, University of Reading, “Aestheticising Emotion in My Mad Fat
Diary”
• Kristyn Gorton, University of York, “Enlightened Melodrama”
1:00-2:00pm Lunch (light lunch provided)
Session K
Saturday, June 20 2:00-3:45pm
K1. Subcultures and Media Histories
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Zélie Asava, University College Dublin
• Joan Hawkins, Indiana University, “No Wave Feminism and Cable TV”
• Charlotte Howell, University of Texas at Austin, “Queering the New South:
Club Culture on Community Access TV in 1980s’s Atlanta”
• Liss Lafleur, Davidson College, “The Digital Witness”
K2. Social Media, Identity and Activism
Room: Shannon
Chair: Estella Tincknell, University of the West of England
• Brenda Weber, Indiana University, “The Gendered Politics of Mediated
Mormonism: Social Media, Self-Reflexivity and Transmediated Salvation”
• Jason Buel, North Carolina State University, “A Kinder, Gentler Patriarch:
(Re)Mediated Spaces and the (Re)construction of Inequality in Contemporary
Social Movements”
• Pamela Thoma, Washington State University, “Cute & Cool Creativity: Cute
Entrepreneurialism and Anna Akana’s Ironic Self-Making”
• Cathy Fowley, Dublin City University, “In/Visibility and Recognition:
Selfies, Strategies of Self-Representation and Gender”
K3. Privilege and Its Discontents: Middle-Class Mothers in the Contemporary
Media Space
Room: Marker 1
Chair: Jo Littler, City University London
• Shani Orgad, London School of Economics, and Sara De Benedictis, King’s
College London, “The Stay-At-Home Mother in Contemporary Popular
Media: The New Sexual Contract and the Old Male Gaze?”
• Jo Littler, City University London, “Managing the Mumtrepreneur”
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Bingchun Meng, London School of Economics, “Negotiating Motherhood:
WeChat, Mediated Parenting, and the Ambivalence of the Good Mother”
K4. Postfeminism’s Afterlife: Neoliberalism, Assemblages and the Resurrection
of Feminism
Room: Marker 2
Chair: Kathryn A. Cady, Northern Illinois University
• Kyra Pearson, Loyola Marymount University, “Channeling State Violence
on Orange is the New Black: Television, Temporality, and the Carceral Net”
• Kathryn A. Cady, Northern Illinois University, “Before the Mancession:
Popular Media About Gender, Race, and U.S. Men’s Job Loss Under
Globalization”
• Melissa Deem, Princeton University, “Mad Men, Delectable Objects, and the
Consumption of U.S. Feminist History”
K5. Digital Masculinities
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Anna Everett, University of California Santa Barbara
• Jaimie Baron, University of Alberta, “Mapping Black Masculinity on
YouTube: Natalie Bookchin’s Now He’s Out in Public and Everyone Can
See”
• Chrystie Myketiak, University of Brighton, “‘Nice Guys’: Placing SelfRepresentation Within the Discursive Context”
• Adrienne Massanari, University of Illinois at Chicago, “MRA’s, #gamergate
and TheFappening: How Reddit’s Algorithm, Community and Culture
Enables Toxic Technocultures”
• Adrienne Evans, Coventry University, “TubeCrush as Intimate Publics:
Hegemonic Masculinity in the City”
3:45-4:15
Tea & Coffee Break
Session L
Saturday, June 20, 4:15-6:00pm
L1. Imagining the Gendered Audience: Women, Media and Marketing
Room: Hibernia
Chair: Lori Hitchcock Morimoto, Northern Virginia Community College
• Bärbel Göbel-Stolz, Indiana University, “Teen TV Heroines: The CW’s
Audience Expansion and Changing Gender Norms”
• Lauren J. DeCarvalho, University of Arkansas, “Extended ‘Visiting Hours’:
Deconstructing Identity in Netflix’s Promotional Campaign for Orange is the
New Black”
• Bethan Jones, Aberystwyth University, “Crowdfunding Gender in Comics:
My So-Called Secret Identity and an Alternative Address”
• Lori Hitchcock Morimoto, Northern Virginia Community College, “Sherlock
and the British Actor Boom: ‘Regifting’ Female Fandom in Japan”
L2. Work, Play or Porn: Performing, Choreographing and (Mis)recognising
Women’s Labor
Room: Shannon
Chair: Maeve Connolly, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology
• Lucy Reynolds, University of the Arts London, “‘Just Playing Around’:
Tracing Representations of Labor in 1970s Artists’ Film and Video”
• Maeve Connolly, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology,
“Smartphones, Sampling and Multi-tasking: Observing and Choreographing
Women’s Work”
• Sarah Smith, The Glasgow School of Art, “Postfeminism’s ‘Confessional
Mode’ as Discursive Decoy: The Misclassification of Natacha Merritt”
• Sarah Neely, University of Stirling, “‘But uz don no what iz bn thru!’: Work
and Play in the Performance of Gender in the Video Art of Rachel MacLean"
L3. What Is Feminist Game Studies?
Room: Marker 1
Chair: Gerald Voorhees, University of Waterloo
• Suzanne de Castell, University of Ontario Institute of Technology; Jennifer
Jensen, York University, “Feminists in Games: An Interventionist Research
Project”
• Kishonna Grey, Eastern Kentucky University, “Canonizing Cunts: Can
Feminist Game Studies be Contained?”
• Gerald Voorhees, University of Waterloo, “Why Study Men and Masculinity,
and When Not To”
L4. The New Feminist Public: Gender and Labour in Digital Cultures and
Industries
Room: Marker 2
Chair: Kylie Jarrett, Maynooth University
• Rena Bivens, Carleton University, “Rape ‘Jokes,’ Social Media Software, and
the Politics of Moderation”
• Alison Harvey, University of Leicester, and Stephanie Fisher, York
University, “Towards a Feminist Gaming Counter-Public”
• Jessalynn Keller, Middlesex University, Kaitlynn Mendes University of
Leicester and Jessica Ringrose, University of London, “Confronting
‘Unspeakable Things’: Digital Media, Rape Culture Activism and Affective
Labour”
• Tamara Shepherd, London School of Economics, “Girl Power Through
Code”
L5. Race, Gender and Politics in Popular Media
Room: Omer/Broadstone
Chair: Stephanie Rains, Maynooth University
• Heather Hendershot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Firing Line
Vs. The Feminists: William F. Buckley’s Battle Against the Women’s
Liberation Movement”
• Sadie Wearing, London School of Economics, “Presenting Moms Mabley:
Age, ‘Race,’ and Celebrity”
• Marisela Chavez, Northwestern University, “Playmakers’ Melodramatic
Project: Institutional Critique and Its Limits”
6:00-7:30pm
Plenary Session: Journal Editors’ Roundtable
Room: Marker 1&2
Chair: Diane Negra, University College Dublin
• Anna Froula, East Carolina University Cinema Journal
• Sean Redmond, Deakin University, Celebrity Studies
• Lynne Joyrich, Brown University, Camera Obscura
• Sharon Willis, University of Rochester, Camera Obscura
• Vicki Mayer, Tulane University, Television and New Media
• Ann Gray, University of Lincoln, European Journal of Cultural Studies
• Helen Wood, University of Leicester, European Journal of Cultural Studies